Tag Archives: Beijing Times

“Naked officials” get light restrictions

The Beijing Times headlines today’s newspaper with the story running at the top of Xinhua’s Chinese language website and on a number of papers around the country: the government’s new rules to deal with “naked officials”, i.e. government officials whose family have emigrated to another country and who are therefore considered likely to flee China once they have saved enough money from corrupt practices such as embezzlement and bribery.

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A leaky first-class lounge at the Beijing Airport

The Beijing Times reports that torrential rains ending Thursday morning flooded certain sections of the Beijing Capital International Airport.

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A Blind Shaft-style coal mine scam

New Culture View reprints a Beijing Times report on murderous swindlers who killed to extort mine accident compensation.

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Crowd-sourced cheating on the 2010 gaokao

A student in Sichuan seeks help with the ancient Chinese section of this year’s college entrance exam — while the test is going on!

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Nine die in latest kindergarten stabbing spree; police bust at Passion nightclub

Beijing Times: A villager entered a local kindergarten, stabbed nine to death before committing suicide.

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Yanqing forced demolition covered in detail

Special attention is given to another story on the right hand column (circled in red). A forced demolition in Yanqing (延庆), a suburb in northwest Beijing. Beijing Times devoted an entire page of report inside:

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In a detention center, Jiangxi man dies from “falling over”

The bottom right of the front page was taken up by a story about the latest case of “accidental” death, of Chen Xujin (陈绪金), in a detention center. The incident occurred in the Xiushui county (修水县) of the city of Jiujiang (九江市), Jiangxi province. Beijing Times reports.

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Inside the burned-out TVCC building

The Beijing Times and Caijing present images from inside the TVCC building, which burned over the Lantern Festival, 2009.

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Newspapers back on Beijing subways

Beijing Times reports on the resolution to the ‘newspapers-in-subways’ controversy.

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Fallen peacekeepers laid to rest

Front page photos of the funeral of the eight Chinese police officers who were killed in the Haiti earthquake.

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